If he's here, who's running hell?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc_i5TKdmhs   I've probably watched this scene hundreds of times. The tension starts slow, "Is that the power coming back on?". Small rumbling, moving water, missing goat, the claw, the eye, the flashlight. We had only saw about 4 dinos so far at this point in the movie and one was a baby and the other was sick. We did see a Velociraptor kill in the beginning, but now having met these characters and kids, this is a whole new terror. I think it's the peak of what of what Dr. Grant does in any of the 4/5 movies he is in. Probably peak for Malcolm as well, maybe even the cowardly bathroom lawyer. The automated car turns around after the power goes out and the storm comes. Ellie is gone, but so is the lawyer once he gets once good look at Roberta. So what was a dud passing through the first time around, ole Rexy showed herself once the cars decided to stop next to her joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysVsMQGfzN4 I just re-watched this movie not too long ago. It took me three nights, though the film is broken up into two parts basically (pre and post montage and Frank’s death). The first part of the movie is vastly superior to the second as it’s more fun to root for the underdog Tony instead of the cracked out abuser. The only other scene I considered was the chainsaw scene though I really like the death of Frank. Neither is as rewatchable in a vacuum as the ending though. Michelle Pfeiffer’s first role. The movie wasn’t even filmed in Miami. It’s long at 170 minutes but the ending feels rushed. Tony’s betrayal of Sosa and his sister going crazy with the death of Manny leads to an epic showdown where he gets shot many times but not before he makes his mark and dies in a pool next to the World is Yours statue.

I've never been a big musical fan. I would go to live shows when I was younger and get bored during the singing parts. Something about this song in particular gets me though, maybe watching my sister do a dance number when we were little hits me in the nostalgia. The ending song - You're the One That I Want, would be an easy #2 for me, but this is the winner. I don't revisit it as much as an adult after liking it all this time but it comes in at 49. It's been parodied to hell, the Bill Clinton one especially lives with me all these years. I can't stand most of the rest of the movie which makes it an easy standout scene.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drdM5dOkOtM

 I have so many list and blog ideas. I need to finish James Bond movies, I’m working on TV intros and sometime eventually I’ll do baseball movies. This one will be counting down my 50 most rewatchable movie scenes. Recency bias is definitely in effect here. Music had a big influence on my selections. About a third of them are either song numbers directly or the song influences how I feel about it. Some were tough cuts with music like Aladdin and The Lion King or more obscure ones like Bad Times at the El Royale. These are not the greatest movie scenes of all time and not necessarily my favorite of all time but the ones I keep coming back to. I also found myself cutting movies where I couldn’t just pick one scene. I never picked two scenes from one movie, though I do have multiple Star Wars and Avengers on here. Things like Goodfellas, The Thing, Fight Club, Interstellar, Terminator 2, Back to the Future are all terrific but there is not one scene that I keep coming back to. If I do...

It's been awhile since I've done one of these but someone inspired me. Top 30 Movies I Want To See In 2016 I have a complete list of 45 so I will go quickly. Not many decent pictures. Sometimes it's hard to know if a specific movie won't ever get made (Gambit) or gets delayed for a long time (Avatar 2), but everyone just gives their best prediction based on what is expected. 15 Movies that have potential enough for me to mention but not good enough to make a top 30 list. Hand of Dante - Is this a real movie? Gerard Butler, Martin Scorsese, Gal Gadot, Oscar Isaac, Jason Momoa and Al Pacino,  28 Years Later - Didn't really love the first two. No Cillian Murphy. The third one is usually the worst, especially after a long delay between two and three. Tron: Ares  - Didn't really like the first two. And Jared Leto ugh. The third one is usually the worst, especially after a long delay between one and two. Ash - Space horror reminds me of Prometheus from the screenshot...

To be clear, these lists include every movie that I've watched this year, whether the movie came out in 2024 or not. My list would be much smaller if that was a limitation. My film total this year was just about 200 but there are a good number of re-watches in that count. I'm about to list just about every new to me movie I've watched lately. Two movies which would probably be considered classics that I finally watched: My Cousin Vinny and Point Break I liked Vinny much more than Break. Vinny is a courtroom comedy that didn't make me laugh out loud very much but I was having fun. Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei work well together. Joe Pesci is a treasure. Point Break hurt my ears and my eyes. There were long scenes of soft rock playing against the waves. Fade ins and outs, one or two good scenes but the whole thing felt like a slog. Neither Patrick, nor Keanu impressed me. One movie I didn't know what to make of was The Exorcist: Believer . It was both worse ...